Sentences with phrase «laboratory rodents»

To date, all of these experimental studies have been carried out in laboratory rodents in highly controlled studies.

At first the researchers worked with only small laboratory rodents, mice and rats.

When fed a «normal» diet — the standard fare for laboratory rodents — sand rats tend to become obese and develop type 2 diabetes.

At least in laboratory rodents, high fat diets are no friend of the kidneys.

So far, they have worked with only small laboratory rodents — mice and rats.

As a first step, his team is testing whether it's possible to stop or slow tau - driven neuron loss and inflammation by lowering ApoE in the early life of laboratory rodents.

Scientists have found a way to make simple droplets of oil navigate complex labyrinths with the same skill as laboratory rodents.

Because the duck's touch sensors are similar to mammals» and their bills aren't covered in fur, the authors suggest embryonic duck bills might be a better model than standard laboratory rodents to study touch sensation as it applies to us relatively hairless humans.

In old laboratory rodents, the mechanisms that open and close these calcium channels seem to become defective, and so calcium accumulates at dangerous levels inside the cells.

Researchers who study obesity have long known that laboratory rodents fed a variety of tasty human foods, such as chocolate chip cookies, potato chips and sweetened condensed milk, avidly overeat the good - tasting foods and become obese.

«Laboratory rodent diets contain toxic levels of environmental contaminants: implications for regulatory tests» by Robin Mesnage et al. published in PLOS ONE on Thursday 2 July 2015.

The current findings are «another piece of evidence that what we see in laboratory rodents on caloric restriction translates to humans,» said Richard Weindruch, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, who has studied caloric restriction since 1975 but did not participate in Floel's study.

Fructose maintains a low glycemic index of 23 and a low glycemic load, but paradoxically it is routinely used to induce insulin resistance in laboratory rodents at high (35 — 65 % of energy) dietary concentrations (85,86).

«Unlike laboratory rodents, dogs share a common environment with people and, therefore, may be exposed to some of the same carcinogens.

It should be mentioned that traditional laboratory rodents usually do not display pair bond formation, a behavioral characteristic that is displayed by less than 5 % of mammalian species (Kleiman, 1977; Dewsbury, 1988).

Calorie restriction may also preserve intellectual function, or at least what passes for intellectual function in laboratory rodents.

In particular, Panksepp's work has focused on «the possibility that our most commonly used animal subjects, laboratory rodents, may have social - joy type experiences during their playful activities and that an important communicative - affective component of that process, which invigorates social engagement, is a primordial form of laughter.»

In the 1970s, researchers claimed that it not only alleviates artificially induced amnesia in laboratory rodents, but benefits patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Robin Henig explains how scientists determine if a laboratory rodent is classified as depressed in the search for new, improved antidepressants

He spent his basic research career studying the mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain, behavior, and mental health, and the influences of the environment and stressors on those actions in laboratory rodents.

Her love of pocket pets grew during her undergraduate years while working with her college's laboratory rodents.

The chemical has been linked to reproductive defects in fish and prostate and breast cancer in laboratory rodents — studies suggest it is carcinogenic to humans.